It's Friday and not only does that mean it is nearly the weekend, but it's also time for us at the 20 minute VC to interview an amazing founder.

And following on from our theme of seed funding with our episodes with Ed Sim and Samir Kaji, we thought it is important to introduce an alternative form of mostly seed funding and probably one of the most exciting forms of seed funding there is in the form of

choir. Bataworks company, happy now John Borthwick, he had a go at me previously for saying Beterworks.

And choir create a way for communities to invest and collaborate with companies and their founders.

Choir is changing the way companies are owned and built. And joining us from Quire is the CEO, Erin Glenn, who prior to being

choir was CFO at SF-based video game maker, Kixi, an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and

UBS, and a management consultant in the US and Southeast Asia.

And this show is also increasingly pertinent as it was recorded the night before the SEC announcement for the Jobs Act,

opening up crowdfunding to everyone in the US.

So now the sky really is the limit of choir.

And for all podcast fans, you might like to know that choir actually featured on Alex Bloomberg's startup,

as choir raised $275,000 for Gimlet Media.

And our partnership with Mattermark is also very relevant to this episode,

as we draw heavily on the report done by Mattermark and Quire on diversity within the crowdfunding space.

And you can learn more about Mattermark at www.mattermark.com.

But before we jump into today's interview with Erin,

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